, 1887-04-28
The Pioneers.

EDITOR ARGUs:-Tha Association of
Pioneers Of Washington territory will
hold their annual meeting on the first
Tuesday n Junc. 1887. in Port Town
send. Those pioneers from Seattle. Ia
coma. Olympia and other places up
S5and and those who will reach us
from ChehaiIs. Shoal Water Bay. tn.
river towns On the Columbia, Walla
Waila and the great interior. are ex-
reeted 10 arrive here on the early morn
ing steamer On Tuesday evening, by
invitation of tie society, | expect to
deliver the annual address. On We'd
ncsday ii Is proposed to entertain cur
guests 70 4 clam bake and snch other
festivities rs my ne decided on.
As this vii! lie 4 very important
matter 10 the citizens Of Port Toyn-
send. It Is 10 be hoped that the citi-
zens generally will join and give the
strangers visiting our city welcome
that viii be creditable TO ourselves
and pleasing 70 them. Last year, at
Seattle. the pioneers were right row.
ally received. We have no railroad
to take them on an excursion as was
done at the queen city; but we can
get up excursions around the bay to
Irondale and Hadlock, and return to
Judge kuEn's spit, where the Duke
of York, president of the bank that
never fails to discount, will preside
over q hundred bushels OF clans. II
we can get Il poTpoise, Hunt has
promised to stuff it with lemons and
have a barbecue. In short. there is
no lack Of savory food to be obtained
from the sea, OF having grand dis
play Of Indian canoe races, dances
and songs to mako the pioneers think
of old times and TO remind them of
the kind OF fO3d we had to eat when
we first came to Puget Sound. But to
do all this requires action and intelli-'
gent organization. and as children OF
pioneers are eligible to become MEM
bers of the association, ii is eminently
fitting thatthe PettygrOves, Plummers,
Hastings, Hammonds and other young
men, soD3 OF the pioneers of Port
Townsend, sh0uid take an active part
in arranging For the festivitses of the
day The city government should
take part, and it appears to me that
it would be proper at the next meet
ing of the city council to have this
matter thoroughly discussed and ar
rangements made at a public meeting
Of citizens to discuss ways and means
for getting mp good time. There
will be visitors here from Alabama,
Maine, Massachusetts and other states,
former residents and pioneers, who
want to meet old friends once more.
There will be vastamount of cap
ital represented on that day, and it
will be Port Townsend's golden op-
portunity to SO receive these guests
that they may look favorably upon
the wonderful facilities for commerce
which this place presents.
[ have been asked "Who are the
pioneers" Every person who arrived
on the Pacific coast. by land or by
sea, before 1856, whether in Cali,
fornia, Oregon or WashiI gton, is
eligible to membership in the Pioneer
Association. and especially those old
sea lions who hunted whales in the
Arctic way back in the forties We
accept them all as argonauts of
early days, although they may not
have taken mp a residence in this ter
ritory till later date Although the
pioneers do not meet till tie first of
June, yet it Is time for US to be stir
ring in the matter and have our plans
arranged and so far perfected that
everything may pass off pleasantly
and with credit to ALL
JAMES G. SWAN,
First Vice President Pioneer Assn.